ADP, the Goals, and the Blogger are BACK!! (Juventus 4-1 Bologna)

By: Marco P. | March 15th, 2009

$Juventus\' Alessandro Del Piero (L) celebrates with his team mate Vincenzo Iaquinta after scoring the team\'s third goal against Bologna during their Italian Serie A soccer match at the Olympic stadium in Turin March 14, 2009. (REUTERS)$

Don’t you just love great come-backs?

And by that of course, I mean Alessandro Del Piero’s return to scoring after nearly two months of drought. Our hero had not scored since Juve’s 3-0 victory over Catania on January 14th, and while we desperately awaited his crucially-needed goals in the UEFA Champions League (ok, no need to rub salt on the wound right?), it was a welcome sight to see ADP’s brace vs. Bologna this week-end. Boy did we need that!

You can read my full match report here, and enjoy a few match-photos below.

Il Capitano’s fighting…

…and the goals are coming.

Group hug!

ADP & his heir… Pinturicchio & Super-Seba… la relève est assurée

Of course, there’s also the much-less publicized (but equally important?) return of yours truly to the ADP blog.

You probably want excuses as to why I was gone so long. Okay, that’s fair. It’s convenient that one of the reasons as to the why is something we’ll be saving a lot of by keeping this short: time.

Yup. Time (or lack thereof) is what has been keeping me away from here, and it has manifested in a variety of ways in the last 3 months. In December, my PC hard drive melted down (not litterally, but it’s awful close to the truth) which you can guess, made my surfing-the-net (and by extension, writing-the-blog) activities considerably harder. That coincided with the fact I spent my Xmas holiday back in Southern Italy, in the company of my folks, family, and a late 90’s steam-powered-sorry-excuse-for-a-latpop computer. Not cool (the laptop part).

Long story short, it took a while to get everything fixed, I resumed my mCalcio writing activities in January, but sadly… that is when ADP stopped scoring!!!! Indeed, you could add another reason to why list and that is goals (or once again: lack thereof). You see, in a convoluted mix of practicality, pseudo-perfectionism, procrastination and laziness logic, I was waiting for Del Piero to finally score AGAIN to announce my come-back on The Offside! Little did I know that ADP & Amauri, the most prolific pair of forwards in Serie A’s first half of the season, were going to have an abstinence so long it would make the Pope proud.

Anyways, sorry it took this long… but I am back. ADP’s back. The blog’s back. And this time it’s permanent hopefully. So stay tuned for a resumption of ADP-news in the coming days. ;]

And remember:

♫ ALESSANDRO DEL PIEROOOOOOO
IL FENOMENO VEROOOOOO
ALESSANDRO DEL PIERO ALEEEEEEEEEEE ♫